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Saturday, 20 October 2018

Arundhati Bhattacharya appointed as an independent director of RIL

Arundhati Bhattacharya, former Chairperson of SBI, has been included as an independent director of Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Limited. Arundhati retired as chairperson of SBI in 2017.

Arundhati will serve RIL for the next 5 years. The company has said that her appointment has been effective from October 17, 2018. In her 40-year career at SBI, she has worked in various departments like Treasury, Retail Operations, Foreign Exchange, Investment Banking.

Arundhati had joined SBI as the Probationary Officer of the country's largest government bank in 1977 and she became the first woman to lead this bank in 2013.

Under the leadership of Arundhati, SBI was the largest and the world's 50th bank. The merger of Indian women bank, including SBI's associate banks, is also among the major achievements of their tenure. During the tenure of Arundhati, the bank successfully launched the Digital Branch and Buddy App.